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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

As he was learning from potential customers and providers he would ask, “What if we could have an app that allowed you to schedule low cost moves?” Speed keeps cash burn rate down while allowing you to converge on a repeatable and scalable business model. Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. tl;dr summary.

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